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{{Sexuality Info|image1=Sapphicflag.png|caption1=The sapphic flag.|gender(s):=Woman/woman-aligned|gender(s)_attracted_to:=Women/women-aligned (exclusively or not)}}
'''Sapphic''', also known as '''woman loving woman''' ('''WLW'''), '''girls loving girls''' ('''GLG'''), '''LBPQ''' ([[Lesbian]], [[Bisexual]], [[Pansexual]], [[Queer]]), '''difemina''',
The term
The [[masculine]] counterpart to sapphic is [[achillean]]. The [[Non-Binary|non-binary]] counterparts are [[diamoric]] and [[enbian]].
==Etymology==▼
The word ''sapphic'' comes from the name of the Greek poet ''Sappho''. The island she was born on, Lesbos, is where the word lesbian is derived from.▼
''Sapphic'' is also a type of poetry comprised of four line stanzas of similar meter.<ref>[https://poets.org/glossary/sapphic Poets.org entry on sapphic.]</ref> Sapphic poems are historically popular and written by people of all genders.▼
== History ==
Although historians use the term sapphic retrospectively,<ref>[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo18991225.html ''The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830'', Susan S. Lanser, University of Chicago Press.]</ref><ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/4053569 "Reviewed Work: ''English Sexualities 1700-1800''by Tim Hitchcock" by Dennis A. Rubini for scholarly journal ''Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies''.]</ref> the first use of sapphic as a [[sexual orientation]] was by sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld in his pamphlet "Sappho and Socrates: Or How is the Love of Men and Women for Persons of Their Own Sex Explained?"<ref>[https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0008/bsb00089681/images/index.html?id=00089681&groesser=&fip=qrsxsxsyztsxdsydxdsydxdsydxdsydeayaxs&no=3&seite=5 Digitally archived version of "Sappho und Sokrates: Oder wie erklärt sich die Liebe der Männer und Frauen zu Personen des eigenen Geschlechts?" (in German).]</ref>
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==Gallery==
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Tumblr oiicogKkOW1vgrjllo1 1280.png|The original sapphic flag.
Download (1).jpeg|An alternate version of the original sapphic flag.
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Sapphic 1.png|An alternate sapphic flag by FANDOM user Cryptocrew.
Static-assets-upload17632410360388193122.png|Another alternate sapphic flag by FANDOM user Cryptocrew.
Sf.png|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/CKrVC2ilW6m/|An alternate inclusive sapphic flag by Gay Breakfast on Instagram.
Screenshot 2021-04-25 9.52.12 PM.png|An alternate of the original sapphic flag by FANDOM user Milky jirin aeris.
</gallery>
▲==Etymology==
▲The word ''sapphic'' comes from the name of the Greek poet ''Sappho''. The island she was born on, Lesbos, is where the word lesbian is derived from.
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